hot pencil
(slang, law enforcement) A police officer who writes a high volume of traffic tickets.
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#1·Apr 27, 2026
(slang, law enforcement) A police officer who writes a high volume of traffic tickets.
He was a hot pencil who kept CHP brass happy by writing more tickets than anybody. Secretly, he was using his highly polished Badge 861 1 to stalk young women for weird, sexually tinged power games.
Origin: A police officer uses a pencil to write tickets, which would get warm if used a lot due to friction. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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